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Residents, conservation groups and experts press LCRA over plan’s hydrology and AI data‑center water demands
Summary
Multiple public commenters, including Spicewood Beach residents and the Central Texas Water Coalition, urged LCRA to strengthen protections for in‑basin firm customers, raised past local outages, and warned about rising water demand from AI/data centers; CTWC presented an analysis that yields a substantially lower firm supply estimate.
Dozens of residents and conservation advocates used the Water Operations Committee meeting on Feb. 18 to press the Lower Colorado River Authority over whether the proposed water‑management amendment adequately protects local communities and firm water customers.
"CTWC's analysis finds the proposed LCRA amendment is not sufficiently protective," David Lindsey, vice president of technical research for the Central Texas Water Coalition, told the committee. Lindsey said CTWC's adjustments to historical naturalized flows — intended to reflect today's watershed with many…
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